This is awesome and it creates really nice 3d models. It's a shame that it isn't as seamless and integrated as the 3d viewer in KiCad, which updates as you change the model, but it's certainly more feature-rich.
How can we add two different boards in a single fusion 360 project. like I have a motherboard and a daughterboard and I want to see how it looks when plug and play
I have been trying to export the final model, but Fusion refuses to include the material properties. So the exported files (tried all of STEP, FBX, OBJ) look like white solids without the silkscreen and soldermask. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Thank you for the tutorial! It would be amazing if you guys could update this for the current Eagle/Fusion workflow! The method show @14:48 and throughout the video is no longer an option. You show a right click "replace component body" that doesn't exist anymore unfortunately. Edit: Okay, I've searched high and low. This is actually quite frustrating. It used to be very simple, as the video shows, to buy an adafruit component, go to the webpage for it, download the Eagle CAD files open it in EAGLE, export the board to fusion 360 and replace the ugly square placeholder components with real models so you now have the physical component in your hand, the schematic and diagrams on your computer in Eagle, and the perfect 3D model with USB ports and all to model enclosures around or whatever the 3D modelling goal is. Why has this gotten so contrived and complicated? Why did they actively remove a great feature?
Hello, At timestamp 14:50 in the video, when you click right click on the 1*13 board and replace component body option is appeared for you. When i tried to do the same , there is no such option in my Fusion, I am using the education licence version for my university work. is there any workaround ?
Very nice tutorial. It helped me a lot. Is possible to use buttons, connectors (JST), batteries 3D models, etc.? It is not easy to search in library.io How are you orienting there if you need some 3D model part? thx
yep, most of the mapping we do is from external step models. We have a small repo of common parts but feel free to use models from grabcad and other places. github.com/adafruit/pcb-parts
Managed libraries are not shared. They are on the cloud, but there still isn't any means to share them. It being a "high priority feature" and "being worked on" for a year, so hopefully Autodesk will finally add sharing libs within the next year. It is better to add the models to your managed eagle library (it has to be managed), this way every PCB you make using those library components will have models without additional steps in Fusion. (NOTE: You may need commit back your changes within Eagle before you can add models within eagle, this and managed libraries in general are very poorly documented.) After you've added the models, update the libs on the PCB then re-export to Fusion and the board will have all the component models. On many parts, you can get the models directly from the Digikey page for the part. Digikey has been adding a lot of these lately and its has been very useful. The public Adafruit Eagle Library hasn't been updated in since 2015, an update would be nice, but I don't know if the new 3D models features are supported in offline libraries (you cannot export a managed library, but you can copy the local cached lbr file). Sharing managed libraries isn't a thing and the Adafruit library included in Eagle's managed libraries is empty.
Go to time line, you'll see the PCB icon, right click and Edit , now that option appear and you be able to modify componente, once you finished press Finish pcb. Best regards!
I gota a problem replacing son models, I downloaded .step file from a web, but when I trying to replace don’t change the component. Tris no happend with all .step files just a some files. This happend with library.io too. By the way I can load de 3d model without any problem.
Nice recap about how to retrieve or genererate 3D models, but IMHO this work should have been done at library level from Eagle. This way the parts can be reused in the next design without the MCAD person doing extra work (and potentialy making mistakes). Bottom line: work on the packages (footprint+3Dmodel integration) not just the 3Dmodels. Otherwise, if sth goes wrong (3D model and manufactured design don't match, it will be harder to figure out if the flaw comes from ECAD or MCAD design steps. Having complete packages with correctly matched AND aligned 3D models from ECAD, should ease the MCAD work, just focusing on enclosure fitting design. If there is a mismatch the package should be corrected. Autodesk Eagle allows it, and I would even say, encourages it. Just my two cents from someone who is usually on the ECAD design step ;)
Hi, it is possible to access the Package Generator or map STEP models to your footprints in the EAGLE Library editor. When using the Package Generator in EAGLE it will generate the Footprint and the 3D model on the same session. You can use the created footprint to replace a footprint variant in the device or create a new device using this footprint. The 3D model remains linked to the footprint even if you copy this footprint to other libraries. With the managed library and the 3D models assigned to your footprints you can re-use the components in any design. Consider joining one of our webinars to learn more about this. EAGLE Learning event Center: eagle.autodesk.com/eagle/events
Bumping this reply, because with a new fusion 360 update, This is now the only way to do this. Also, You have to be sure that your 3d Models for all your parts are set BEFORE you export to fusion. Updating parts, and then trying to push to fusion will not work without deleting the fusion project and starting over.
Eagle is new to me, I will try Thanks for the cad parts, I really appreciate it
Excellent video, thanks! You know what you are teaching. Adding 3d components in Fusion is so much easier compared to do it in Eagle.
Thanks! Just the info I needed to get going!
I wasn't aware of library io. Great tutorial.
Great job guys! Keep up the good videos...
This is awesome and it creates really nice 3d models. It's a shame that it isn't as seamless and integrated as the 3d viewer in KiCad, which updates as you change the model, but it's certainly more feature-rich.
adjust your grid spacing for better alignment of the pin headers in the holes.
Cool. Thanks for sharing. 😊
How can we add two different boards in a single fusion 360 project. like I have a motherboard and a daughterboard and I want to see how it looks when plug and play
Would love an updated version of this for the new Fusion 360 Electronics.
Thanks, nice explanation
I have been trying to export the final model, but Fusion refuses to include the material properties. So the exported files (tried all of STEP, FBX, OBJ) look like white solids without the silkscreen and soldermask. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Please I want to ask you how many cartes can be controlled by spi or i2c and how much distance can be reached?
Thank you for this great video .
I wonder if there is a rigid-flex feature in Autodesk Eagle .
If any one know that ,please leave a comment below.
Anyone knows how to export it to Creo Parametric 7 including the pcb copper and silkscreen layers ?
If all this work was already done by people, has the adafruit or microbuilder eagle library been updated to contain 3d models If I update it ?
Super cool of Autodesk to break / throw away this functionality with the 2020 update
Thank you thank you thank you you are best 😊
Thank you for the tutorial!
It would be amazing if you guys could update this for the current Eagle/Fusion workflow! The method show @14:48 and throughout the video is no longer an option. You show a right click "replace component body" that doesn't exist anymore unfortunately.
Edit: Okay, I've searched high and low. This is actually quite frustrating. It used to be very simple, as the video shows, to buy an adafruit component, go to the webpage for it, download the Eagle CAD files open it in EAGLE, export the board to fusion 360 and replace the ugly square placeholder components with real models so you now have the physical component in your hand, the schematic and diagrams on your computer in Eagle, and the perfect 3D model with USB ports and all to model enclosures around or whatever the 3D modelling goal is. Why has this gotten so contrived and complicated?
Why did they actively remove a great feature?
14:51 im not seeing the "replace component body" option and i cant find out why
Hello,
At timestamp 14:50 in the video, when you click right click on the 1*13 board and replace component body option is appeared for you.
When i tried to do the same , there is no such option in my Fusion, I am using the education licence version for my university work.
is there any workaround ?
Very nice tutorial. It helped me a lot. Is possible to use buttons, connectors (JST), batteries 3D models, etc.? It is not easy to search in library.io How are you orienting there if you need some 3D model part? thx
yep, most of the mapping we do is from external step models. We have a small repo of common parts but feel free to use models from grabcad and other places. github.com/adafruit/pcb-parts
Managed libraries are not shared. They are on the cloud, but there still isn't any means to share them. It being a "high priority feature" and "being worked on" for a year, so hopefully Autodesk will finally add sharing libs within the next year.
It is better to add the models to your managed eagle library (it has to be managed), this way every PCB you make using those library components will have models without additional steps in Fusion. (NOTE: You may need commit back your changes within Eagle before you can add models within eagle, this and managed libraries in general are very poorly documented.) After you've added the models, update the libs on the PCB then re-export to Fusion and the board will have all the component models.
On many parts, you can get the models directly from the Digikey page for the part. Digikey has been adding a lot of these lately and its has been very useful.
The public Adafruit Eagle Library hasn't been updated in since 2015, an update would be nice, but I don't know if the new 3D models features are supported in offline libraries (you cannot export a managed library, but you can copy the local cached lbr file). Sharing managed libraries isn't a thing and the Adafruit library included in Eagle's managed libraries is empty.
this is in the works now...I would expect this will be a little more than a month. :)
If one has Fusion 360 do they need Eagle?
16:49 - Why I cant see this option (replace component body) in my fusion360?
same problem, i just downloaded fusion and try to follow this tutorial, but this option is not here. Someone has a solution? Thnx
Same problem
Go to time line, you'll see the PCB icon, right click and Edit , now that option appear and you be able to modify componente, once you finished press Finish pcb. Best regards!
I gota a problem replacing son models, I downloaded .step file from a web, but when I trying to replace don’t change the component. Tris no happend with all .step files just a some files. This happend with library.io too. By the way I can load de 3d model without any problem.
same problem
Nice recap about how to retrieve or genererate 3D models, but IMHO this work should have been done at library level from Eagle. This way the parts can be reused in the next design without the MCAD person doing extra work (and potentialy making mistakes).
Bottom line: work on the packages (footprint+3Dmodel integration) not just the 3Dmodels.
Otherwise, if sth goes wrong (3D model and manufactured design don't match, it will be harder to figure out if the flaw comes from ECAD or MCAD design steps.
Having complete packages with correctly matched AND aligned 3D models from ECAD, should ease the MCAD work, just focusing on enclosure fitting design. If there is a mismatch the package should be corrected.
Autodesk Eagle allows it, and I would even say, encourages it.
Just my two cents from someone who is usually on the ECAD design step ;)
Hi, it is possible to access the Package Generator or map STEP models to your footprints in the EAGLE Library editor. When using the Package Generator in EAGLE it will generate the Footprint and the 3D model on the same session. You can use the created footprint to replace a footprint variant in the device or create a new device using this footprint. The 3D model remains linked to the footprint even if you copy this footprint to other libraries. With the managed library and the 3D models assigned to your footprints you can re-use the components in any design. Consider joining one of our webinars to learn more about this. EAGLE Learning event Center: eagle.autodesk.com/eagle/events
This is a thing of the past no? It looks like Eagle has come to Fusion but I don't know if fully integrated or what. Please advise boss.
Bumping this reply, because with a new fusion 360 update, This is now the only way to do this.
Also, You have to be sure that your 3d Models for all your parts are set BEFORE you export to fusion. Updating parts, and then trying to push to fusion will not work without deleting the fusion project and starting over.
but how to create enclosure for such boards?
Here is how to make a snap fit case for a pcb with buttons and a display ua-cam.com/video/C-31tlBQtuc/v-deo.html
Hey